Metadata tags for videos

First, let me say I have been THOROUGHLY enjoying Serviio and the WHS plug in for it. THANK YOU!!!!

I have a large collection of DVDs I am ripping to .m4v files. I have been tagging them with the excellent MetaX tagger, but quite a few of the files are not showing up with the correct titles. (Why does themoviedb like Riddick so much??) If I disable metatagging, I get no titles at all, despite the wonderful tags I've already added. If I enable the online tags, I get 5 copies of Riddick, along with about 20 other titles that are off.

I've tried renaming the filenames, with (year) and such, and while I've had limited success with some of the titles, others are very stubborn (I've renamed Be Cool to all sorts of variations and the results from moviedb aren't even close.)

I don't want to install another media manager (swisscenter or mymovies) on this virtual machine, especially since it's running on a little atom-powered microserver. Is there any way to get Serviio to read the tags stored inside the files? Or is there some app I can use to generate the .nfo files easily? I tried locating one with no results.

If it's not possible, that's fine, I'll just keep trying to rename, but I've got ~200 discs to go and I'm getting about a 60% success rate with themoviedb.

thanks!

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According to the wiki, embedded metadata for video files is used to generate the video's thumbnail. It doesn't mention using it for any other tags you may have added - maybe others could comment.

I use the Online Metadata Extraction which works well for all my non-home movies. You do need to spend some time renaming files, but its a once off hit, and there are some tools available to help you. Have read of my post here, particularly re: using Filebot to assist you to resolve names: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10626&p=70544#p70544

filebot did WONDERS. Thank you! It didn't clean everything but it's close. I've set MetaX to rename the files based on themoviedb name and year as well for the rest of the rips.